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The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
James s.artup,s Luck.

The death of ex-Freeholder James II.
Startup at his home in Middletown, New
York, announced in these columns last
Sunday morning, takes an. active man from
the path of life. Two years ago Mr.. Start
up moved from this city, where he had
been public leader of prominence, to
Mlddletown, where, with his brother, he
conducted the Russell House. An unfor-
tunate fall that injured the bone at the
end of his spine brought on blood poison
ing and caused death. He was one of the
Police Committee there. In few months
the town was to have been made city,
and by common consent he was to have
been its first Mayor. An accident literally
saved his insurance policy for his widow.
He had had an accident and life policy
for 5000 each on his life. The life policy
had run out, but the accident policy was in
force. The insurance company's physi-
clans who dissected his body traced his
death directly to the accident, and the acct
dent insurance policy will have to be paid.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
A CHILD AND A FORTUNE.
THE BELGIAN ELoPERs TO PRODUCE
THE WOMAN,S DAUGHTER

Found mt Easton Yesterday aud Served
with "a Writ of Hnbeas Corpus-Seme
New Features of a Very Interesting
StOry-The Husband in This Country.
Widespread interest has been aroused
over the movements of jean Van Dooren
and Mrs. Van Heyst, who arrived on one
of the Red Star steamers in this city few
days ago, after clipping from Germany.
They had with them $780, in Belgian
forms said to have been stolen from Mrs.
Van Heyst's husband, and little child of
the woman. They stopped at Taylor's
Hotel. while lawyers employed by the
woman's husband were trying to devise
means to hold them, and finally fed to
parts unknown. Through Lawyers Willard
c. Fisk and William F. Albeit, claim was
set up that Van Dooren owed Van Heyst
some money, and their trunks were
attached at Taylor's Hotel. Applications
was made to Judge Randolph, in behalf of
the clippers, by E. s. Cowles, yesterday, to
dissolve the attachment, and Judge Ran
dolph made an order to that effect. Van
Heyst's lawyers supposed that the $780, 900
might be in the boxes.
But" said Mr.. Fisk to a NEWS reporter
yesterday, '.there is no money nor any
thing else in them we want; SO we did not
care whether the attachment was dissolved
or not"
The main fight is for the child, and be-
yond that lies a story. The money the
clippers have with them IS said to belong to
the lite one; and she is besides said to be
heir to a large fortune, of which this
money is only little part
An Associated Press despatch received
by THE News late last night says that the
clippers have been found at the Barnett
House in Easton, Penna., and are being
Swallowed by several detectives, They
arrived there on Thursday evening, and
their presence was not known to any one
outside OF the detectives until yesterday.
Joseph Van Heyst left Antwerp several
days ago to catch the runaways, and was
expected to arrive in New York to-day.
Ths officers who are watching the coupls
have been employed by Van Heyst Van
doren has employed ex-Judge Meyers to
defend him. The trunks of the runaways,
containing large amount of silver ware,
were seized by customs officers Immediately
after their arrival in New York on Thurs
dayl but owing to legal teehnicalities the
detectives were advised not to make the
arrests until Van Heyst arrives. A writ Of
habeas corpus was issued at Easton yester-
day requiring Mrs. Van Heyst to produce
her child in court at o'clock next Tuesday
afternoon
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
POTTER SEEKS REVENGE.
Stung by an Editorial in the Sunday
Morning News In the Plume Case.

Stung by an Editorial in the Sunday
Morning News In the Plume Case.
Constable Jelly walked politely into the
News yesterday morning, and drawing a
chair up to the editors desk, proce eded to
read a warrant for the editors arrest
1t had been sued out of Justice Davis's
Court by Thomas Potter, the wealthy con-
tractor, whose cruel pursuit of widow
Plume, first made known in the columns
of this paper, stirred this community to
indignation two years ago. 1t lays De-
cember 9th, 1887 as the date of the pub
LEGATION of the libel. The 1887 is mani
fest clerical error, and the paper of De-
cember ~, 1885, is probably the one the
complainant intended to designate. At
that time young Plume's suit for libel
against Potter had been tried in Judge
Knapp's Court. The jury had awarded
the boy, who had been prosecuted for his
mother, $500 damages, and Potter had
possibly settled the bill by sending the
money to the successful plaintiff in the
shape of five hundred silver dollars. The
only reference to the case in the paper of
that day was an editorial comment upon
the absurd iDadequacy of the damages al
lowed with the prosecutions that prompted
the suit. The editorial is too long to be
quoted here in full, but it takes the view
that young Plume had been followed by
Potter because he had probably induced
his mother to leave Potter's house when,
he believed, the influences that surrounded
her were not good for her. After Mr..
Jelly had read the warrant, it was agreed
that thr News editor should appear in
Judge Dayis's Court tomorrow morning
and give bail
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
CAP Iofrmnn,s Ping.

Poundmaster Thorp, VIII, with his assist
ant was arrested on complaint of Court In
terpreter Hoffm on ch srge of larceny
in stealing the collar off his prize pug dog,
had an interview with his accuser yester-
day afternoon, and it was stormy one
Both sides pleaded their case, but the
weight of evidence was seemingly against
the official dog stealer, as he finally ex-
planned that he didn't know it was Mr..
Hoffman's pet pug, otherwise he would not
have made any fuss. Thorp must have
struck a sympathetic spot. as Mr.. Hoffman
subsequently explained that he would no.
prosecute under the larceny act. He be-
lieved some mode of punishment should be
administered which would teach Thorp that
he cannot violate the law with IMMUNITY.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
At Monmouth Park.

MONMOUTH PARK, July 16 This proved
to be the hottest and most uncomfortable
day of the season. The light breezs was
intercepted by the back of the grand stand
as it came from the west. and the xesult
was that the thousands in attendance liar
ally sweltered all the afternoon The
course was very fast and the racing good.
The judges were Clarence Mcdowell JAS
Galway and d. ID. Withers; the timers,
Green Morris and the Dryer brothers. Mr..
J. F. Caldwell was the starter. The events
were won as follows; The free handicap
one mile. by Bsss first; Stonebach, second;
time l. 43I In the Atlantic States for
seven year olds, mile, Prince Royal came
in first, and Now or Never second. Jockey
Williams, who rode Now or Never, was
suspended for foul riding and Mirabeau
was given second place by the judges; time
1.154. Hanover won the Stockton stakes
for three year olds, II miles, in l3.
Quito was FIRST and Himalaya second in the
free handicap sweep stakes one mile and
three-sixteenths; time, 3:033. The Ell
boron stakes, seven furlongs, was won BY
MILFORD, with Ferona second; time $50.
Lancaster won the mile and furlong sell
ing race for three years old in LIS. Lot
terry was second.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
A Murder In Newark.

NEWARK, N. j., July 16.-Thomas Hef-
ner, aged 50, halter of No. 438 Mulberry
street, was shot and instantly killed by
Otto Weiss, florist, of Middle Village. L.
l., on Broad street, tonight. Otto ac-
knowledged to Chief lutte that he had COM
mitted the murder, but said that he had
done it in self defense. He said that he
came with his brother John to Newark to
collect board bill, aud while walking in
the street he met Hefner and asked him
the way to the depot. He wanted to fight,
whereupon Otto drew 3S-calibre revolver
and fired one shot.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
sEYEN FIREMEN INJURED.
Great Storehouse Burned-Panic in an
Orphan Asylum.

New YORK, July I6.-rhe Metropolitan
Storage Warehouse. at Nos. III, lI9 and
121 West Thirty-eighth street, was COM
pletely destroyed by ire at an early hour
this morning. By explosions, seven fire.
men were injured. One fireman was
blown from ladder and seriously hurt.
The Casino and Hotel Normandie were at
one time IN great danger, but were saved.
The fire broke out at 2:55 a. M, on the
second floor of the warehouse, and owing
to the combustible nature of the goods
stored therein, spread rapidly. The
flames ran along the hatchways and stair
ways o the upper hsors, and in fifteen
minutes the whole building was ablaze.
The loss will reach hale q million.
An hour before daybreak, a fire broke
out at st. Joseph's Asylum, at Eighty
ninth street and Avenue A. The main
building was ablaze and the colony of
children 10 an uproar. The outbreak had
children, the full complement of the in
stitution, were asleep within its walls.
The Sisters 10 charge, who, throughout
the scene of terror and confusion that fol-
lowed, struggled with great heroisn to
preserve order and to facilitate the wera
of rescue, aroused the sleepers promptly
and sped them on their way to the street.
The thick smoke and unknown turns that
beset their way threw them into panic,
however, and the Sisters maintained their
hold on them with difficulty. One Hubert
Butte, aged nine, a German orphan, was
severely burned in escaping. His clothes
caught fire and his face and limbs were
badly scorched The Hook and Ladder
Company reached the asylum as the last OF
the children were emerging on the street.
Shrieks were heard from an upper story
and three female attendants were found
to be imprisoned on the third floor. They
had not dared to follow the children down
stairs. They were rescued. The loss will
not exceed SIS 600
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
PERSONAL.

City Treasurer Earle is to have wsll-earned va.
cation.
The wife of ex-Assemblyman Henry Gaede was
buried yesterday.
Assemblyman William C. Heppenheimergs
for Europs yesterday on the steamer Fulda on
business.
Constable Feeney has resigned his constableship
TO give all his time 10 District Attorney Win
fields office.
Prof. Serge. of the German American Academy
Hoboken. has resigned to accept position in
Rochester n. Y.
Rev. DR.. Harcourt pastor OF Grace NJ E. Church.
has resigned to accept call to California. He will
leave for his new held about the middle Of Au-
gust.
Mr.. Lewis A. Hecht. the az able assistant of Mr.
W. Fl. Speer, returned home last evening from
very enjoyable vacation of a week in Morris
County.
Mrs. Mary Ann Arbuckle one OF the Oldest Of
Lafayette residents, died the other day. James A.
Mclaughlin the proprietor of tho old Jersey City
Times was lar son-in-law. e
Mr.. and Mrs. lsaac d. Fry. OF Wayne street.
will spend the next two weeks in the nouatAins
of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Fry is the regular engineer
of the newspaper express on tn . Penn. R. r.. and
has been granted leave OF sbssacs for IS days.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
Il FA1AL COLLISION.
A Greenwood Lake Train Meets with IA
Serious Accident.

Three suffering patients were struggled
at o'clock last night from the Erie Rail-
way depot at the foot of Payonia avenue to
st. Francis Hos oital They were James
Nolan. nswsboy, N. Mineral of Wayne,
New York, and John LAYTON, baggage
master, and they had been carried into
town from the wreck of New York and
Greenwood Lake train. According
to the story Of one of the pas
sengers given to a News reporter last
evening, they left Greenwood Lake on one
of the trains on the road early in the after
noon to come to this city. When about
midway between Little Falls and Upper
Montclair 10 locomotive was sighted on the
track ahead. She was drawing waite at
one of the water stations located there.
The engineer sighted her too late to pre-
vent a collision, though he dill all he could,
when he saw it inevitable, to break the
violence of the contact. When they
came together both locomotives were
badly wrecked, and two or three of
the passenger cars were broken to
pieces. Passengers were flung in all direc-
tions, and many of them were badly in
jured. The fireman was terribly mangled
and was probably instantly killed. The
engineer had one of his legs broken. Nolan,
the newsboy, had his head badly cut, and
was disfgured on the face. Lawton, the
b ggage- master of the train, who lives at
Tenafy, had his right arm broken.
Mineral, who was passenger on the train,
sustained very dangerous internal injuries.
Others of the passengers were more or less
cut and bruised, but they left the train
at the scene of the accident and their
names could not be learned. A relief train
was sent out at once, and the passengers
were brought to the depot in this city.
A SUNDAY MORNING News reporter who
visited Train Dispatcher Henry at the of
fee of the company at the Long Dock was
refused all information.
'.You reporters want to know too
much" growled the urbane official as he
turned the reporter away.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17

History of Remarkable and Peculiar
Woman.

solitary carriage stool in front of 299
Washington street yesterday afternoon. A
small coffin was borne down the steps of
the house and placed in the carriage which
rolled away with its burden. The &C fin
contained the body of the one-Year-o
daughter of Tom Ri-Jon, which died last
week. The parents of the child were in
such destitute circumstances that they
were unable to pay the expenses for the
burial of the child, and it was through the
generosity of some sympathetic newspaper
men that the body received proper inter-
ment.
The circumstance has brought once
more before the public woman who has
an interesting history. Some years ago
Mrs. Tons Ri-Jon was known in New York
to every newsboy and to almost every
man connected in any way with a news
paper. She was in the newspaper profess
sion herself, and with ner husband conduct
ed for some years paper called theV olcano
Her most noticeable peculiarly was her
manner of dress. She always appeared in
the streets in male attire, such as is worn
by DIR. Mary Walker, and she was always
an object of attraction. she mingled with
the newsboys and offered her paper for
sale as they did.
The Volcano was paper composed al
together of edi orial comments, and was
perhaps the only paper which was exclu-
sively in the interest of the workingmen.
1t was written up by Mrs. Tom Ri-John
and her husband, and was sold by them.
1t is believed that out of the sentiments
expressed in this paper have grown So
cislism, Nihilism and Dynamitism in this
country.
Mrs. Tom-Ri joins peculiarities have
frequently been the cause of her arrest in
New York. Crowds would often gather
around her, making the streets impossible,
and in order to dis, erse the crowd and pre-
serve the peace the police would be COM
PEELED to arrest her. Her appearance in
the street in bloomer costume has alss sent
her to Jail, but Notwithstanding her trials
she has never abandoned her attire nor
ideas.
The Volcano saw IFS end about seven
years ago, and since that time Mrs. Tom
Ri-Jon has had many severe trials from
sickness. She is a woman of more than
ordinary intelligence, and is an exceedingly
pleasant conversationalist. Even to the
present day she wears her peculiar cos
tune, and whenever she appears on the
street is an object of attraction. Her
family is now in almost destitute circum-
htalceS
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
THE RECORD ELSEWHERE.


1t is not necessary to consume column,
as several New York newspapers will to-
day, to say that yesterday was an awful
hot day.
Frank DUR, aged 81, a barber, of No. 81
Beacon avenue, was Frustrated in his shop
on Oakland avenue, near Newark, yester-
day afternoon, and is in dangerous con-
dition.
Joseph Harris, one.armed veteran, was
found in the hallway of 1SS Twelfth
street, early last night, suffering from a
sun stroke. He was taken to the City Hos
pital.
John Lenerman, of Seacaucus, was over
come by the heat while in Hoboken, yes
terday afternoon. He was taken to St.
Mary's Hospital.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
Justice Rougel.s SHES.

Vim. j. Rouget, real estate and insur-
ance agent and general auctioneer of 345
Grove street, reports sale of the following
property: House and lot, No. 270 Sixth
street, to Mary Kenney of 26S Sixth street
for S., 100; house and lot, No. 176 Steuoen
street, to Ann Hagen, of No. III Bay
street, for $780, two houses and lots,
Nos. 122 and 124 Halliday street, to Henry
Schmidt, grocer, for s., 500.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
A GreenvilIe N,,isnwoc.

Mr.. John Jansen, of No. 2 Henry Place,
Greenville, complained to the Fifth pre-
cinct police last night that his wife aud
child are lying seriously Ill at their home
from the effects of the presence of a pool
OF filthy, stagnant water which occupies
the cutters of the vicinity.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
A Murder in New York

New York, July ia party of negroes
who were shaking dice for money in
Grand street saloon, this afternoon, quar-
relea over some alleged cheating by ons Of
the party. An alteration followed and
Samuel Brewster stabbed Eco Jackson,
alias Frank Williams, instantly killing him
The murderer escaped, bat it is believed
he will be captured before sun rises.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
A Noisy PedInr.

James Corners, pedlar, created dis
turbance on Newark evenue early last
night He was standing near Grove street
with his wagon, when officer Efficiency
told him 40 move on. He refused, aud
was about to strike the officer when he was
collared and taken to the Second precinct
station.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
A snake nill Fugitive

John Burke. aged 20 years. who was SEN
fenced May Dist for petty larceny to the
penitentiary escaped last night. He had
exchanged his prison garb for citizens
suit and so eluded the watch and the
guards. Officers last night were searching
for him on West Newark avenue, where he
has an aunt living, but they have little
hopes of recaptuiing him.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
A Fight over "a Loan.

VIM. McOlernan, young Scotchm an, re-
siding at 90 Prescott Place, was loaned
money by fellow eountryman to coma to
this country several months ago. When
asked is repay the loan last night by his
benefactor he got angry, and com menced
fighting. Officer Harrison White, living in
the neighborhood, arrested him, and he
was locked up in the Library Hall station
on a charge of disoraerlY conduct.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
snecInI Labor Meeting.

A special meeting of the Central Labor
Union of Hudson County will be held in
81. Michaels Hall, corner of Erie and
Ninth streets, on next Tuesday evening.
The delegates ara requested to attend
without further notice.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
Bayonne.s Readiustment Commencement.

Judge Knapp yesterday appointed Ed
low W. Harrison, OF this city, and ]. I. &.
Collins and ex-Msyor D. W. Oliver, both
of Bayonne, to act as commissioners for
Bayonne under the Martin tax act. Mr.
Harrison is the engineer of the State Rail-
road assessors. AID Mr.. Collius is a real es-
tats lawyer. senator Edwards made the
application for the appointment of the
connission.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17

NEW York, July 16-A boiler weighing
a ton at solomon Bcothers' factory, on
Gouveneur Slip, exploded tonight, and
few thousand feet. The damage is Sl0,
600
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17

Mrs, Birch, the wife of ex-oficer Birch.
has so far recovered from the pistol shot
wound inflicted by her husband, will proba-
bly, be allowed to 81 home to-day.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
A Dozen Rurned ID pen.h.

ST.. THOMAS, Ont., July l6 "A dozen
DO lies have so far ee taken from the
wreck Of the London and Port Stanley
RlilNay.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17

IH6 UGItI BdI1eS PlaJo on usUoIttay Uo-
tween Internal onal League clubs resulted
as follows:
At Rochester-Newark 2. Rochester 8.
At Syracuse-Scranton l. Syracuse 6.
THE RECORD ELSEWHERE.
Boston, 6; Indianapolis, 1.
Washington, s.; Pittsburgh, 8.
Brooklyn, 6; Cincinnati, 2.
Philadelphia, 10; Detroit 4.
Chicago, 8; New York, 4.
Acme, IL; Nyack. l.
Wilkesbarre and Torontos, game stopped
after three innings on account of rain.
St. Louis, 8; Athletic, 2
Hartford %; New Haven, 6.
Cleveland, 10; Metropolitans, 1.
Bergen. 8; Riverton, 2.
Louisville, 8; Baltimore, 5.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
THE JERSEYS LOSE.

Beaten Yesterday by the Buffa los-The
Record Elsewhere
BUFFALO, July 16.-The Jersey City club
was beaten here by the Buffalos to-day.
Shaw was knocked gu. of the box in the
seventh inning and Huston was substi-
tuted.
SCORE BY INNINGS.
Jersey City......... ? 0 0 o. Q
Buffalo. 0 0 O. u 1 0-17
Earned Runs-Jersey City 5, BufftIo II.
Stolen Bases-Jersey City 4. Buffalo 4.
Base Hits-Jersey City II. Buff.lo IS.
Errors-Jersey City T. Buffalo 5.
Umpire-Mr. Visner.
Time of Cameo hours 20 minutes.
Pitchers-Shaw, Huston and Walsh.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1887-05-28
lunch Time.

Man wants bu: little here below
zero.
Asa rule, the best hats 90 not
cover the best brains.
4 Young lady who visited Niagara
complained Of IN her eye.
rroverh for TIE year-faint
heart never helped fair lady.
There il one branch. Of labor
which must always be done 10y hand
picking pockets.
y New York nan advertises to
restore old paintings. Wonder how
many he has stolen. .
\ mar applied for q license at
Columbus, Indiana, the other day.
and when a-ked the Eomau's name,
said lie be doggoned # he haden't
csorgot it.
If there is any one thing in lie
that will make a man rejoice it is to
see another man slip down on his
own sidewalk, which he has neglect
ed 10 have shoyeled Off.
The man who swore of from Dor
rowing umbrellas or money. from
painting the town red. and from
reading papersfor which he has not
subscribed or paid, has a big FIXTURE
before him if the angels only get TO
hear how good he is.
sIronfonnder-'This strike will cost
me e good many thousand dollars.
Reportcr-All your men OFT, ch ?
Yes, and there's a big lot OF iron
solid in the blast furnace" Now.
when did the men strike? while
the iron was hot, of course
Men are strange creatures. They
will waste an hour hunting a collar
button instead Of having an extra
supply and letting their wife find
the missing one. Yon never see a
woman look for the pir sho drops.
Her husband finds it when he walks
around in his bare feet.
"A couple Of countrymen went into
the general pos,oflice to send q tel
egram, without having any clear idea
of how it could be transmitted. The
message was taken, and just as the
pair were leaving, the big bell OF
st. Paul's struck one. Wherenpon
one of tie rustics gave a jump, say.
ing: "Bv lingo. there it goes. Jim
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1887-05-28
AbbeyiIIes Louisiana

r KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND
1 Horses. Bnggies and -Ambulanses for
hlcs iu the country. ana no pains nor
,.eans will be spared to give thatat%enti"n
and care to stock left in my charge which
is necessary they should have. >Specla!
attention viii be given to the sale of
HORSES. mules, or anything else pertalnmg
to the livery business, entrtsta1 to me.
Horses boarded by the week OF month ut
reasonable rs s. Call an examine my
stock. inspect my stable and learn pay
charges. F'eeiiug confident to give entlrs
satisfaction Ia those who may %ratronlre
me. | soliel, a liberal share OF the public
patronage. Zee / 1856